| re: It's entirely like the money wasn't the for an Encores cast album... | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 03:28 am EST 01/07/25 | |
| In reply to: re: It's entirely like the money wasn't the for an Encores cast album... - Chromolume 11:16 pm EST 01/06/25 | |
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| For me too. And now and then my favorite recording of something does end up being a revival... or at least one that I love as much or for different reasons than the original. There are just so many incredible OBC albums that I think get lost in the revival shuffle. I'm sure a small fraction of people who have seen and bought the Chicago revival album ever bothered to seek out the amazing OBC, for example. I shudder to think of people who only know Gypsy from the LuPone revival/recording (say what you will about the production live, the album is not good)... I think a lot younger people or people knew to Broadway or Gypsy in the last 15 years just assume Patti is the standard best, so why would they look beyond it (let alone know which of the many other albums to pick). Or Follies from any revival except the Papermill, or anyone who knows Company from a revival but hasn't gone back to how it was written to sound, or Sunday in the Park, or ALNM, or Merrily!! lol. Horrified to think of people not pursuing an album of Anything Goes beyond the Sutton revival album (at least go back to one of the other revivals! Again, say what you will about it live, that is not a great recording of the score). Or something like Drood, which had a perfectly solid revival but I can't imagine a better capture of better performances of that show than the OBC, how many people who know the show through the revival or even just since the revival (for a school or local production and then looked up the album and got the revival suggested on Spotify etc) bother to listen to the original. I think a lot of us nerds know that even if we love a revival album, or know the show from it first, that you still have to hear the OBC... but lesser nerds or more casual fans I think tend to assume that the revival will be as good or better because they have modern technology and vocal training, or whatever, so whatever the revival album sounds like they assume is the best or as good as any recording of the score. Meanwhile, if people only knew Carousel from the 1994 Broadway revival, I'd be fine with it. |
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